1On May 7th, 959, Zhang Aizhen was born in a peasant family in Guanzhuang Village, Hexi Town, Gaoping City. Her parents named her Aizhen out of love for her daughter. On this day, she started her own life drama. Zhang Aizhen's father, Zhang Donglin, is an out-and-out fan of Shangdang Bangzi. In the amateur troupe in my hometown, my father is the backbone of the art comprehensive major. Xiao Aizhen and his brother Feng Laisheng have been immersed in this amateur troupe since childhood, and going to the theatre with their father has become the greatest happiness of their brother and sister's childhood. Feng Laisheng's brother is a music lover. On one occasion, he was playing the Hu Qin at home and saw Ai Zhen playing in the yard with several children of the same age. Out of carelessness, he called these children into the house and asked them to sing a song of agricultural Dazhai. Suddenly, I found that Zhang Aizhen had an accurate tone and a loud voice, and could sing with the accompaniment of Hu Qin. This unexpected discovery surprised Feng Laisheng. Although Ai Zhen was only six or seven years old at that time, because he didn't understand the meaning of the lyrics and couldn't pronounce the words clearly, he sang "Five Grains of Maojian" into "Twenty cents", but with the intuition of a music lover, he felt that his sister was very talented in music and had a beautiful voice, and she would definitely be a piece of singing material in the future. Zhang Aizhen is naturally fond of singing. At that time, Guo's songs such as Clear Water and Blue Sky, Jiaocheng Mountain and Jiaocheng Water were often played on the village loudspeakers. She is a loyal listener of these songs. Learn to sing, sing My Sweetie's. People in the village like to ask her to sing a few songs when they enjoy the cool in summer, and they should also ask her to sing a few songs when they get together in winter. At this time, Xiao Aizhen, who usually doesn't like to talk, is also happy in her heart, just like a little singer. However, something unexpected happened. At the age of 9, she lost her mother. Then my brother got married and went out alone, leaving only her father and her at home. In order not to let her father do more housework after work, she shouldered the housework burden left by her mother with her tender shoulders. She spent her childhood in school, cooking, feeding pigs, washing clothes and cleaning. Today, whenever I think back to those days, she will say with emotion that since her mother died, her childhood has ended, which has also drawn the first full stop for her life. 1972, gaoping county youth literature and art training class enrollment. Persuaded by her brother, she signed up for the exam. Wearing the shoes with plastic soles that she bought for the first time in her life, she walked on the asphalt road of the city, and the sound of "beep, beep" rang at her feet. She is very excited ... the exam is divided into singing and speaking. Singing mainly in high notes, which is her strong point, naturally she doesn't want to be afraid. White is her weakness. At that time, the Daobai exam required candidates to say two words. There is a saying that "our literature and art are all for the people" and another saying that in A Qing Sao, A Qing Sao said "Ba Er". "Because of her high-pitched accent, the front nasal sound and the back nasal sound can't be distinguished, the tip of the tongue and the root of the tongue can't be distinguished, and the mouth and teeth can't be distinguished, which really makes this little girl who has spoken high-pitched dialect for thirteen years very embarrassed. In order to speak as standard as possible, she drew a circle in the place where she often mispronounced, looked it up in the dictionary, marked it with pinyin and tried to read it. When it was time for the exam, everyone else said these two words in a high-pitched accent, "Our literature (thanks) and art are for the people." "I lost the words (ba) and (er). "Only she speaks more standard. After some efforts, she was admitted at the age of 13, and her bittersweet career began. Since then, a tall and thin girl has appeared in Ding Lin Temple. She got up before dawn, and when night fell, people didn't return. She kicks, splits, bends down, pulls the top ... What bothers her most is pulling the top, but she can't finish this action. The teacher did not give in to this and forced her to practice. At the insistence of the teacher, she finally made this movement, but in a short time, as she fell to the ground, other students who practiced this movement with her also fell "plop, plop". The more wisdom, the less courage. When I was still in the training class, I once performed "Du Fu Shan" in the countryside, and the audience kept coming in. However, the actor who plays Ke Xiang suddenly fell ill and could not play. She volunteered. Ke Xiang, who was handcuffed, came on stage and sang passionately. " Break this ... "He sang and acted. The shackles were thrown over his head and behind him because of excessive force. In desperation, his feet quickly lifted and the shackles behind him returned to the front. As she talked and demonstrated, laughter filled the room. "The first play I rehearsed in the troupe was the modern play Dead Hua Lian, in which I played Yang Kaihui. In order to play this role well, I made a special trip to Beijing to watch and learn the Peking Opera Dead Hua Lian starring Li Weikang. Her superb performance and beautiful singing greatly opened my artistic horizons. After coming back, combined with the characteristics of Shangdang Bangzi, I worked hard on the identity and temperament of the characters, and finally succeeded in the performance of this role. At that time, it caused quite a stir in Gaoping, with more than 20 performances. The leaders of the cultural department in southeastern Shanxi led the staff of the three regiments and one school in the area to Gaoping to watch the performance, and the Theatre Academy removed all the stills. 198 1, the "recent love" in life has a result. This year, she was no longer lonely. She got married. Zhang Jianguo, her husband and she are classmates in the training class. They have been classmates for 4 years and share the same interests. Zhang Jianguo is also the son of a farmer. He is honest, simple and upright. He studied acting at first, then changed to music. After graduating from the training class in the same year, he was assigned to Gaoping People's Theatre as a band player. 1983, son was born. Looking at her son, she realized the happiness that a mother could not say; But the arrival of my son has also brought many new difficulties. The life of an actress is not fixed, and the performances of adults are all outside. Just after the full moon, she will take her son to the countryside to perform. On one occasion, she had a high fever when she was performing in the countryside of Gaoping Youth League Committee. She was still nursing her five-month-old son. Even the doctor said that he couldn't attend the performance that night, and then he simply asked the doctor to find a way to lower his temperature to 38 degrees and ensure that he would perform for the audience. After the performance, he was taken to the hospital overnight. The five-month-old child was hungry for two days because he had a fever and no milk. At that time, the audience were watching her play, but the child cried with hunger. After returning to Gaoping for hospitalization, grandma walked back and forth for more than five miles with her child in her arms, but she still couldn't get milk ... What mother in the world doesn't love her child. Zhang Aizhen is also a good wife and mother, but she can only do this for the troupe and career. Now, in order to take better care of their two children, her husband Zhang Jianguo left the troupe and became a teacher in a vocational and technical college. This also lightens Zhang Aizhen's burden, and she doesn't have to worry about her children during the performance. At home, you can also sing, practice and ponder your lines quietly. At this time, he is still her adviser and the first listener. I don't know who once told me that "a perfect family is half the success in life." "It can be said that Zhang Aizhen's perfect family has made her career.

"1978, I played the first traditional drama" Anti-Marriage between Britain and Taiwan ",and I played Zhu Yingtai. There is no such drama in the traditional repertoire of Shangdang Bangzi, but it was transplanted and adapted by Shangdang Bangzi Troupe in Gaoping County according to the Sichuan opera Liuyinji. This is the first traditional play that Shangdang Bangzi resumed after being banned during the Cultural Revolution. And in just 1 month, the play was put on the stage. That year, I was 19 years old. "

During the training course, traditional opera was still a forbidden area, so she didn't systematically study the performance of traditional opera. In order to perform this traditional play well, she started with the fingers, shoes, steps and circles in Tsing Yi, and humbly learned from the old artists. I also went to Taiyuan at my own expense to learn sleeve-sleeve kung fu from Jin Opera performance artists Tian Guilan and Xiao Guiye. In a short time, she mastered the basic skills of opera characters. Shangdang Bangzi's performance is rough and bold, chasing women.

The lines are bold, the outline is big, and she is strong and lively. However, Zhu Yingtai, who she plays in Anti-English and Anti-Taiwan Marriage, has a unique charm and focuses on depicting the subtle psychology of the characters. Therefore, after the performance of Anti-Marriage between Britain and Taiwan, the audience and leaders responded well to Zhu Yingtai, which was an encouragement and a good start for her. There is no end to learning. In order to absorb Shangdang Bangzi's beautiful singing more widely, she began to learn the singing method of Shangdang Bangzi's famous singer Wu. The famous drama "Pi Xiuying Beats the Tiger" by Shangdang Bangzi is a masterpiece by Mr. Wu. In order to arrange the play well, she found the records made by teacher Wu before the "Cultural Revolution", listened carefully and learned repeatedly. In order to get the true story, she called home and worshipped Mr. Wu as a teacher. Teacher Wu warmly accepted her and took her as an apprentice. When she left, Teacher Wu gave her a set of clothes and a pair of trousers as a meeting gift for the first time. Teacher Wu not only taught her to sing, but also cared for her in life. Therefore, Zhang Aizhen said, "We are both a master-apprentice relationship and a mother-daughter relationship." In future rehearsals, she will ask Mr. Wu for advice, especially Qin Xianglian's rehearsal, and Mr. Wu gave her a lot of guidance. When Teacher Wu died of illness, she was extremely sad: "Why do I know that Teacher Ming cried and cried, and every sentence remembers the kindness of the master?"

"Shangdang Bangzi is a traditional art, but it also needs innovation. Actors should not only sing opera, but also love. " Killing Wife is a play after the singing reform of Shangdang Bangzi. My performance experience of "Killing Wife" is: first, we must distinguish the levels of paragraphs; Second, be lyrical and have feelings; Third, Zhang Chi must be moderate, natural and smooth, and do it in one go. "

1984, Zhang Aizhen began to perform when he was still in gaoping county. The books at that time were different from those today. 1986 was transferred to the Shangdang Bangzi Youth League in Jincheng, and the play was adapted. Still played by, while Wu Haiping is played by Zhang Baoping. The difference is that Hanwu was originally dressed as a martial artist, and Zhang Baoping was replaced by a beard (Hanwu was replaced by a red face, and he was called Hongsheng before he joined the party). This year's "Big Four in Shanxi", especially the last big singing performance of "Killing Wife", shocked the audience every time and was deeply attracted. The scene at that time was that the audience was quiet, people were absorbed, and many people forgot to wipe their faces with tears ... "(—— Wu Baoming, the former director of Jincheng Shangdang Theatre and a national first-class composer) caused a great sensation in the provincial capital after the rehearsal of Shangdang drama" Killing Wife ". There are also many comments and responses. There are some sayings, such as "the sound shocked the land of Jinyang", "inheriting the example of traditional reform and innovation", "watching the drama makes people feel shocked and refreshing", "Shangdang drama is getting better and better, and it is no longer the noisy drama in the past", and many people say that it is very enjoyable and really makes us work in other places. After that, "Killing Wife" was filmed in the northeast and performed in Beijing at the national vocal academic seminar, which received rave reviews. Up to now, the play has been on for a long time. It is roughly estimated that the performance of Killing Wife has reached 1000. 199 1 year, when I went to Beijing to participate in the plum blossom award performance, there was "killing my wife" in the repertoire, but Hailing Wuyou replaced it. She and Guo Xiaoming are long-term cooperative stage partners. When they performed in Beijing, their performances were perfectly coordinated and conquered the audience in Beijing. In this plum blossom award selection activity, Zhang Aizhen won the "plum blossom award". In the history of Shangdang Bangzi Opera, she and Wu Guohua, who won the Plum Blossom Award in the same year, were the first winners. 1995, Zhang Aizhen's aria "Killing Wife" and "Shu Mei at the Window is My Friend" won the third gold record award of China Records. This is one of the highest awards in China. In Shaanxi Province, Ding Guoxian, the master artist, won the grand prize in the 1 session, but not in the second session. In the third session, there were Zhang Aizhen and Wang Aiai. The quality of an actor is judged by the audience and fans. Zhang Aizhen attaches great importance to the emotional communication with the audience in each performance. In this way, there will be different feelings and inspirations after each performance. During the performance, there are often known and unknown audiences and fans coming backstage to rap with her. On one occasion, Zheng performed "Spring Tour of Emperor Taizong" in the countryside and sang "It turned out to be a cold wind rustling the knocker". He sang here, and the audience said, "Stop singing." She stopped, wondering what was going on. The audience said, "Just sing this sentence. We still want to hear this sentence. " She sang again, and the audience shouted again, saying, "If you don't want to be accompanied by a band, listen to her dry singing (oratorio). "Inspired by this aria, I used it in the arias of Killing My Wife and Knocking on the Door. It is this little accumulation that has made her achievements in the future.

"If" Killing Wife "greatly improved my singing art; Then, "Letters from Two Places" gave me a deeper understanding and understanding of the performing arts, a further grasp of the artistic laws and performances, and a profound understanding of the comprehensive performance characteristics of various categories of traditional Chinese opera art and the positioning and role performance of actors in all aspects of stage art. "

If an actor wants to create a good role, he must first understand the characters. Letters from Two Places is a reinterpretation of the love story between Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun. First, she invited Kyle, a famous director of Beijing Opera, to have a performance class. After expounding the importance of the role of "action", Kyle carefully polished his image of Zhuo Wenjun. In order to accurately grasp her body language, she practiced calligraphy with the famous Shangdang teacher Bai Fushu and studied guzheng with the band player ... To successfully shape a dramatic role, it is not enough to have body language alone, but also to have a singing voice that conforms to the character. Zhang Aizhen handled this very well. Once, Zhuo Wenjun was deeply in love and finally expected a letter from Sima Xiangru. She handled it very carefully and accurately. I was very excited to get this letter. I can open it and see that there are only 1 1 numbers "1234567,7890" on it. What does this mean? She was thinking, and the audience was forgetful. Seeing that she hadn't figured it out, she quickly shouted, "I don't understand, it's two wives!" " Let the fans around her send a "shh-"sound discontentedly. In fact, Shangdang Bangzi's musical singing features are not only high-pitched and vigorous, but also graceful, euphemistic and feminine. If a play is both masculine and feminine, both sonorous and euphemistic, that is the real audio-visual enjoyment.

"An actor can't stop at a little achievement, nor can he be satisfied with singing something in this line. Only by learning the vocal music of other majors can your vocal music art be fuller. "

"Killing Wife" is a leap for her to reach the peak of Bangzi's singing art, while "Letters from Two Places" is another important self-transcendence for her to improve her performing arts. Faced with these achievements, she has been trying to tap her potential. She played Mu in "Yang Men Nvxia" and joined her own Beijing Opera Blues Kung Fu. She said that the arrangement of Beijing Opera Blues Opera was to increase and develop her own opera routes in Tsing Yi and Xiao Dan. In Sisters Marry Well, she usually plays a positive character who is dignified and generous, but she plays a negative character who is too poor and loves wealth-Zhang. In "Cut the Flowers Hall", she plays Song Qiaolian, the daughter of a loyal person who was framed by traitors, and also sings for the role of Zhang Jinxiang who killed Song Qiaolian's father. Shangdang Bangzi's musical "There is a Shesaihua in Saibei" is a condensed version of all Yang's dramas, from Seven Star Temple to Ci Chao. She played Xiao Dan's Social Flower and Beijing Opera blues to Tsing Yi and Lao Dan. In her life, she has many occupations, such as being a troupe leader, being a teacher, being a wife and being a mother, but these occupations have not affected her acting skills at all.

"Today, Zhang Aizhen is a representative figure of Shangdang Bangzi's performing arts. Her" Love Jane "is widely circulated, and she has made great contributions to Shangdang Bangzi.

"When I was very young, I listened to the party bangzi; When I was a little older, I went to school on the party bangzi; Now, I'll sing Bangzi. Shangdang Bangzi is the favorite of my life, and I will use my life to interpret Shangdang Bangzi. " She saw the current situation of Shangdang Bangzi: "The development of opera culture in our city is not optimistic. The troupes in lingchuan county and Qinshui County have been dissolved, and the Zezhou County Troupe has stopped performing in the countryside. There are five reasons: there are few actors in the troupe; The income of cast members is low; Social security is not in place; No money to arrange a new play; The old drama is always sung, and the audience is not satisfied. "

"In order to further sublimate the opera culture of our city and reverse the low tide at this stage, I personally have several suggestions: let some famous actors go to counties to support county-level theatrical troupes for 1 2 years and train a group of young actors for counties; Let the young actors of the city group take the lead in opening the market and get full display and exercise; The theater organized a group of screenwriters to organize and innovate a group of old dramas of Shangdang Bangzi, put on new clothes for the old dramas, and let more young audiences enter the theater to see and appreciate the wonderful and melodious art of Shangdang Bangzi. In order not to make Shangdang Bangzi a "sunset art" or "twilight art", please set up Shangdang Bangzi Opera School in the city as soon as possible, enroll students free of charge, and train a group of Shangdang Bangzi successors in three years to produce a few small plum blossoms; Transfer a group of college graduates, enrich the literary and art team, and solve their work and life treatment problems. At the same time, we must also cultivate our own audience, especially young audiences. " After graduating from "Youth Training Class", Zhang Aizhen set foot on the first stop of life and society-Gaoping County People's Theatre as an actor. Soon, the troupe will transplant the Peking Opera Dead Hua Lian. Because of her good voice, Zhang Aizhen stands out among the young actors who are out of touch with the world, and plays the heroine and Yang Kaihui in the play.

Faced with this important role, the fledgling Zhang Aizhen is both happy and worried. In order to better control this role, Zhang Aizhen specially went to Beijing to watch the performance of Li Weikang, a famous Beijing opera star, in The Recent Flower. From singing to figure, Zhang Aizhen looked at it and took it to heart. After returning to the group, Zhang Aizhen consulted more historical materials about Yang Kaihui, which further deepened his understanding of the role. Starting from his inner feelings and combining the characteristics of Shangdang Bangzi, he made great efforts in singing and performing, and finally made the role fully presented to the audience. The success of The Recent Flowers also marks the official beginning of Zhang Aizhen's stage career. On the road of art, Zhang Aizhen always looks for ways to improve his skills. During the period of 1979, I studied under the performance artist Wu Bangzi. Mr. Wu's superb singing and performance have helped a lot, and at the same time, his artistic level is constantly improving.

With the accumulation of stage experience, Zhang Aizhen's artistic attainments are constantly improving. Many plays starring her have been well received in various performances, and her performances have gradually been recognized and affirmed. Going to Beijing to win the "Plum Blossom Award" has become her artistic goal.

At this time, Zhang Aizhen has become the head of the second performance group of Shangdang Theater in Jincheng, and her ideas have been strongly supported by the cultural department, our college and our group. 199 1 year, Zhang Aizhen embarked on the journey of competing for the Beijing Plum Blossom Award with his carefully choreographed "Killing Wife" and "Letters from Two Places". Zhang Aizhen's gentle and euphemistic singing and her stage performance with her old partner Guo Xiaoming really conquered the audience in the capital, and Shangdang Bangzi's performance was an unprecedented success. Zhang Aizhen got his wish, and won the "Plum Blossom Award" with the excellent result of the second place. "Love Jane Tune" suddenly became the focus of attention in the field of Chinese drama, and the national media began to report it all over the country. Zhang Aizhen succeeded. During her many years of opera career, Zhang Aizhen has been running between the rural stage and the urban stage. Busy work made her too busy to take care of her family and children. For this famous actress, what the family gives most is understanding and support. Zhang Aizhen's lover, Zhang Jianguo, used to be an actress in a troupe with her. Later, when she turned to administrative management, she had more time to take care of Aizhen and her children. Zhang Jianguo is a very careful husband. He classified all the artistic materials about Zhang Aizhen and combed them carefully.

Zhang Aizhen has a son and a daughter. They may have neglected their children in the past, but now their workload is very light. As long as they have time, they will stay at home with their children, as if to make up for their previous maternal love. The Zhang Aizhen family is quiet and harmonious. Zhang Aizhen's achievements in Shangdang Bangzi made her artistic aura even more dazzling. At the same time, Shangdang Bangzi has been gradually ignored with the changes of the times. The only opera school in our city was merged, and the opera class was cancelled. The opera talents trained before were scattered all over the country, and there were no new faces on the stage of taking the party bangzi.

The predicament that Shangdang Bangzi will soon have no successor has become the most basic obstacle to the development of Shangdang Bangzi, and the cultivation of Shangdang Bangzi's successor has become the most critical issue at present. From 65438 to 0999, Zhang Aizhen founded "Zhang Aizhen Children's Art Center" at the suggestion of his nephew Feng Huaiyu, aiming at cultivating artistic talents with comprehensive quality. However, over the years, watching the hot scenes of dance, painting, piano and other courses, opera has always been neglected. Zhang Aizhen sighed helplessly: We should pay close attention to cultivating opera talents!

As a representative of several provincial and municipal people's congresses and a member of CPPCC, Zhang Aizhen used this special status to propose to the government many times plans to reform Shangdang Bangzi, build a grand theater and set up a drama class ... However, it has not been implemented so far, and Zhang Aizhen is also very confused and helpless about whether the development of Shangdang Bangzi can go smoothly.

At present, the stage of Shangdang Bangzi is mainly supported by actors from the 1980s, such as Zhang Aizhen and Wu Guohua. Grasping the time to cultivate reserve talents is the first key issue to revitalize Shangdang Bangzi. However, to promote the development of Shangdang Bangzi in an all-round way, we must take the market as the guide and carry out all-round reforms in performance content, role system, stage music and personnel system. Only by reform can there be development.